The Cobra Event - Hardcover

Preston, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679457143 ISBN 13: 9780679457145

Verlag: Random House Inc, 1997

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Book by Richard Preston

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A novel based on real-life events and situations focuses on top-secret operations by a U.S. government organization preparing for a mind-boggling, horrifying threat to civilian populations

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bra Event is the story of a secret counter-terror operation.  It is set in motion one spring morning in New York City when a seventeen-year-old student wakes up feeling vaguely ill.  She seems to be coming down with a cold.  Hours later she is having violent seizures, blood is pouring out of her nose, and she has begun a hideous process of self-cannibalization.  Soon, other gruesome deaths of a similar nature have been discovered, and the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta sends a forensic pathologist. an expert in epidemiology, to investigate.  What she finds precipitates a federal crisis.
    
The details of this story are fictional, but they are based on a scrupulously thorough inquiry into the history of biological weapons and their use by civilian and military terrorists.  "The creation of advanced biological weapons using methods of genetic engineering and biotechnology is s

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• Verlag: Random House Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679457143
• ISBN 13: 9780679457145
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400